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Does your organization have employees that frequently travel internationally, and who need to be connected to their office, colleagues and customers anytime – anywhere - to be productive? If so, you’ve no doubt experienced the bill shock when...

Global telecom operator revenues exceeded $2 trillion in 2012, with 60 percent going to mobile operators, according to research firm Ovum. While Ovum seem minimal growth overall in the coming year, the firm believes some segments will still have above-average growth...

January 2, 2013 10:40 am |
by David Friend, The Canadian Press |
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While BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion claws for a diminishing market share in North America, the smartphone maker maintains a reputation in Southeast Asia that in some places harkens back to its glory days. It's sometimes hard to remember that RIM was once the darling of the tech industry...

Huawei Monday announced a move to set up shop on Nokia's home turf. The Chinese company says it will invest $90 million over a five-year period to establish a research and development (R&D) center in Helsinki, Finland. Huawei said the move will add to its existing R&D deployments, which include over 70,000 employees worldwide.

Apple shares continued to slide for a second day before the opening bell, a day after the company posted its worst one-day stock drop in four years. On Wednesday, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company's shares closed down 6 percent at $538.79, erasing $35 million in market capitalization. Speculation abounded as to the cause.

Nokia Corp. plans to sell its head office near the Finnish capital to real estate investors for $220 million as the struggling cellphone maker continues to cut costs. CFO Timo Ihamuotila says the deal, to be concluded later this month, is in line with aims to shed non-core activities, adding that Nokia will continue to operate from the Espoo headquarters "on a long-term basis."

The wireless bug has bitten, and it’s not going anywhere. How else do you explain millions of people shelling out, at a minimum, $500 for an iPad when we’ve been suffering one of the worst economic slumps ever?

Just a few short years ago, when most operators talked about their mobile data business, it was a bit of a misleading conversation. What they were really referring to was their SMS business. The mobile Internet or mobile broadband portion of these organizations was dwarfed by the SMS portion...